Friendly Fire - Disabled

We’ve received a lot of feedback on this subject, and it’s something we’ve been watching closely. Today we’re making a change in an attempt to reduce team killing in Fortnite Battle Royale.

Starting immediately, we’re going to disable friendly fire. This change will not require a client update.

We understand that when players abuse friendly fire it can be an incredibly frustrating experience. However, we also recognize that friendly fire encourages thoughtful play and careful tactics. The impact of this change will be closely monitored, and in the case that those tactics are too negatively affected we may evaluate other methods of reducing team killing.

Literally first time posting on here to respond to this. I know it is a bummer when people get killed by their squad mates on purpose, but this is taking away a key component of the game. I can now have an extremely aggressive push while my teammates raid rockets on me and nothing happens. I feel this is taking away a special sauce of this game, taking away key communication skills and making it much more hand holding.

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When you get teamkilled, there is a button on the spectator screen that says "Punish" (or something like that). And when that button is pressed, the teamkiller gets killed.

Sure this will not end the trollers, but it will end the more serious players that teamkill for items or for something else. The teamkill report should be the same and not automatic when you press the button. (I knew a few friends that will press that button for fun when a accident happens)